Obviously, holding on to too huge a bundle of US Treasuries ( as loans to the USA to stage wars abroad ) is becoming a major national risk since the Trump Admin of the USA is NOT treating China as its strategic trading partner; but more so as its "enemy" as stated by Trump's currently selected top team folks : bad blood fellows !!

It is not a grand leveraging tool by holding on to such trillions of US Treasury papers in any dispute with it. The USA Trump's Admin is becoming very cunning and funny with its current team as each day passes by !

Motika Post time: 2018-4-16 07:10
I would dump it to ! worth 4 cents to a $

Wellll, bond yield moves in inverse direction to interest rate and the way USofA is and will be borrowing money (by issuing bonds and t-notes ), the bond yield will naturally drop. Japan is clever to slowly dump the USAnian bonds.

What is PBoC doing? We don't know bc PBoC has a direct line to Treasury for trading bonds, it's not on the open market bc of the volume.

There's a trust-relationship established over the years. Maybe Trump should destroy this relationship as well to "punish" China and shoot himself in the foot... again, ad nauseum. He is rather good at that, isn't he?

12dream Post time: 2018-4-16 22:12
Obviously, holding on to too huge a bundle of US Treasuries ( as loans to the USA to stage wars abro ...

Regarding currencies and bonds there is a paradigm shift initiated by China as we speak. China is taking the long view on this.
Have you noticed the steadily strengthening of the RMB? China will need to float the Yuan eventually to achieve its goals.
If you are interested in these things, Keep an eye on Chinese crude oil futures in Shanghai Stock Exchange, it is traded in RMB. As well, both Russia and Angola are trading crude oil with China using RMB.
In the mean time, Russia is launching its own version of SWIFT. I had hoped China would do that, but Russia has the initiative here.
Interesting decade ahead of us as we see the beginning of the end of the USD-hegemon. The push back from USofA could be quite... incendiary. Trump has no idea whats happening, and his A Team, the likes of Bolton, Lighthizer, Ross et al make emotive decisions.
At least the USAnians did not include China in its list of "xhithole countries".

cestmoi Post time: 2018-4-28 03:46
Regarding currencies and bonds there is a paradigm shift initiated by China as we speak. China is ...

Clever analysis of this political rotting world of people in hegemony drives. China's holding of US Treasury Papers might be better swapped ( off-loaded ) for its use in its initiated B&R drives via its AIIB panel of members : to be safer in the longer run, better IRR investments and accommodating many other nations and people in need around the globe.

Very dirty political tricks: It's happening so cunningly and swiftly in the USA where giant players like Huawei and ZTE ( latter already paid a hefty fine to the tune of $900,000,000.00 for an alleged international breach ) were virtually dumped in the USA. Can anyone with a sane mindset believe in the USA - Trump Admin fellows ?

ALERTING: The U.S. Senate on Thursday agreed to a resolution which claimed that the responsibility for identifying a future 15th Dalai Lama only rest with officials of the 14th Dalai Lama's private office and any interference from the Chinese government is invalid. Who is USA to think and assume that Chinese province Tibet is belonged to the USA ? Bloody thick face, dirty thick skin and extremely bad blood in them all ! Good US folks are paying these lousy and hopeless Senate fellows for doing rubbish to their own country -very bad name is NOT making America Great again! On top of that, these fellows prefer to harbor criminals and baddies inside the USA while wanting to sack hard working and innocent Mexicans with DACA Wall. This notorious act is obviously challenging UncleTrump's rhetoric and tweets " USA is not going to keep baddies and criminals inside the USA to the effect ".

Good US folks ought to wake up swiftly and intelligently to challenge their own politicians for doing so little or nothing for their own USA inside the USA. Such dangerously alarming situations demand immediate rescue plans and two of them are: (1) Gigantic explosions and implosions of Yelllowstone Park volcano (s) can be likened to a massive array of hydrogen bomb explosions and ( 2 ) the most disastrous Earthquakes around it plus the LA fault lines are likely to combine to form million tons of TNT shakeups ! Yet, all these with nothing else better to do politicians are totally wasting TAX payers' funds as payments for their HUGE salaries and BIG perks. WAKE UP !